20 • Facilitate inclusive legislative processes by engaging with affected communities and civil society during legal reform consultations. Human Rights Institutions • Actively monitor and investigate rights violations related to statelessness, discrimination in civil registration and documentation, and barriers to citizenship, with a focus on systemic issues affecting Roma and other marginalised communities. • Issue recommendations to relevant authorities on eliminating discriminatory practices, improving procedural safeguards, and ensuring access to documentation and legal identity in practice. • Facilitate dialogue and cooperation between public institutions, civil society organisations, and affected communities to address the prevention and reduction of statelessness and promote rights-based reforms. • Engage in strategic advocacy or legal intervention in key cases to help establish standards on statelessness, legal identity, and access to rights. • Contribute to international reporting processes and regional human rights monitoring by documenting trends and progress in reducing statelessness and improving access to citizenship. European Union • Encourage and support alignment of internal laws with international standards concerning statelessness, birth and civil registration, and anti-discrimination, including through the active engagement of EU Delegations with civil society, affected communities, and public authorities to improve and implement relevant laws and standards. • Monitor implementation of commitments made under regional frameworks including the 2019 Poznan Declaration and EU Strategic Framework for Roma Equality, Inclusion and Participation 20202030. • Encourage development of inclusive data collection, monitoring, and reporting frameworks that involve civil society participation to track progress on addressing (risk of ) statelessness and civil registration. • Ensure that statelessness and risk of statelessness are duly considered in the design and implementation of readmission, return, and migration cooperation agreements between EU and Western Balkans Beneficiaries, including through appropriate safeguards and identification mechanisms. Council of Europe • Support public authorities in harmonising legislation and policies on civil registration, citizenship, and statelessness with European and international human rights standards. • Integrate statelessness as a key issue within the EU Enlargement process, including by monitoring progress to address statelessness under fundamental rights, Roma inclusion, migration, and anti-discrimination benchmarks. • Facilitate platforms for dialogue and knowledge exchange among Beneficiaries, civil society, and regional and international partners focused on addressing statelessness among Roma communities in the Western Balkans. • Provide targeted funding through existing and future instruments to support work to address statelessness in the region, including networking, knowledge-sharing, capacity-building, community engagement, provision of legal aid, and advocacy activities. • Encourage the inclusion of civil society organisations with expertise on statelessness and minority rights in consultative and monitoring processes, including through allocating funding to future projects. • Promote and facilitate regional cooperation initiatives to address statelessness, including the sharing of good practice and knowledge exchange. • Advocate for the incorporation of statelessness-related benchmarks into broader human rights, anti-discrimination, and inclusion frameworks.